Where the parties stand: Welfare/Employment

WELFARE/EMPLOYMENT

Alliance: Create 80,000 extra jobs through $200 million economic development fund, 5 per cent tariff on imports and free tertiary education. Use higher taxes to give beneficiaries extra $20 a week.

Labour: Scrap work-for-dole and work testing of sickness benefit but keep Work and Income NZ. Bring back apprenticeship system, introduce compulsory employer-funded training for each industry.

NZ First: Compulsory military training for all 18-year-old males for 12 weeks. Expand work-for-dole to apprenticeships and other training, with employers topping up wages.

National: Maintain current policies as forecasts predict 100,000 extra jobs by 2002. Continue work-for-dole.

Act: Extend work-for-dole to make all unemployed work or train up to 40 hours a week. Compulsory mentors for teenage mothers on the DPB.

Greens: Create more jobs through community-owned bank, more recycling. Create single benefit with add-ons for specific needs, scrap work-for-dole. Bring back low universal child allowance.

Mauri Pacific: Create social responsibility commissioner and an official poverty line. Tax incentives for new industry in rural areas.

United: More jobs through business advisory service for small and medium businesses.

Christian Heritage: Pay homemaker's allowance of about $100 a week to married couples if one stays at home to look after children. Supports work-for-the-dole. Tax incentives for employers to take on unemployed.